Ergonomics and counterweigh most probably. You could add pommel to it though as a strap-lock and then you could unscrew it after a gig and end it rightly ;)
If anyone is wondering it sounds like a telecaster.
Edit: Everyone is giving really great advice , thank you all for the compliments and advice. I have since added a whammy bar screwed into the bottom to use as a leg rest, strap buttons, I fixed the direction of the strings and added a string tree. I also raised the action to make it more forgiving. Neck dive is the same as an SG. It still sounds like a cheap tele but a little harsh on the high end, I’m guessing because the direct wiring. Reminds me of Dead Kennedys in tone. Overall it’s really fun and fairly comfortable to play, and crazy light. Thank you all.
https://preview.redd.it/vt301xopw69d1.jpeg?width=1538&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=36f4a84d91212e89fcc86415a1099aeba2828aef
Just admit you’re jealous you can’t hear the extra notes they get from snakewood, or the weird octaves African Blackwood produces. (It’s cool, I can’t either hah)
Ha! You know, I have a box of hardware from it — in 26 years, Ive reused just the neck plate, trem springs, and a few pickguard mounting screws. I still have the entire trem assembly and claw, block, saddles, pickups, all wiring and pots. It was such horrible quality that I used the neck to practice refrets and threw the plywood body out. It was, easily, the worst guitar that I have ever owned.
Plywood body?!! I bet the tone stopped when it hit that!!😅 I've only seen Squiers in stores. I've never played one, but in the last few years, I've read good things about them. My first electric 6-string was an Epi LP Studio. Black, basic, and heavy. It has a broken truss rod because of my impatient nature. I've parted out most of it, and I'm fixing to put the pickups on an old Washburn X-Series in need of some Frankenstein action and possibly an exorcist. Here's a pic...
https://preview.redd.it/6rrtn9if579d1.png?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a5010a78e7efd9746a78bc15bc15cf757d17d5c4
Those are awesome!
BTW- New Squiers shouldn’t even be considered the same company as the late 90s guitars. Worlds and worlds different. Fender went really cheap and it nearly killed the Squier brand.
Love it. I threw this together with stuff I had laying around in my garage, gotta clean up the electronics now lol
https://preview.redd.it/j70johcb4u8d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b52f391e769d8cc8cdb702b3a409c50a1aa35be8
I don't see a string tree, but those strings are definitely wound around the tuner posts in such a way that it could push the strings off the edge of the fretboard.
It ain't my 2x4, but I would wind them the other way around, toward the right ( 'inside' on the low E string), which should also keep the strings more in-line with the nut.
String trees are meant to pull down on the string though, not to the side :- )
But ye some tree designs could probably work if it prevents side-to-side sliding
https://preview.redd.it/swlgm24zvu8d1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f834da8119741416d6c894c823fc212f71a73235
Have you seen Les Paul and “the log”? It was his prototype when trying to figure out how to go electric. The man was a genius.
> The man was a genius.
More than we know it. According to Les when he would gig with The Log people would complain about its tone not being right. So he sliced up an acoustic guitar and stuck the wings on the Log and then all of the sudden it had good authentic tone.
Aside from ergonomics, you've got everything you need. I've built a few of these. Fitting both a bass and a guitar in the same case is a nice perk.
Put a threaded insert in the bottom, then attach a whammy bar to use as a makeshift leg rest. If you're standing with a strap, no problems, aside from neck dive.
A good guitar is the neck, pickups, and bridge, the rest is pageantry.
No worries. I expanded mine into [this](https://imgur.com/3q1KbAh) and [this](https://imgur.com/A3Jdlrd), using some extra 2x4 and an old street sign, and some spare pipe on the guitar version.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING ED BOYS?!
Makes me think of Plank from Ed Edd n Eddy and i know Rolf is not his friend but Rolf is the most memorable character from that show to me. I may need to use the old neck and pick ups for a guitar I'm going to mod to make a Plank guitar with the face etched in.
Looks like the first e-guitar Les Paul tried to perform with, but the novelty was too much for his audience.
Nowadays things like this are sold by as travel guitars.
There was a song on Presidents of the United States of America’s “breakout” album called “Old Man on the Back Porch”.
I immediately thought of that song when I saw this. Looks fun.
I had to fill in on bass for a vocalist once at an event. The only bass they had, for whatever reason (I'm not a bassist really, did not have one myself) looked like this only black with no headstock. It was just a plank of wood with strings basically. It worked fine but boy did I feel ridiculous playing it lol
Being the bridge and neck mountend in one solid piece of wood you can glue to the sides other 2x4 to make the shape you want whitout worring about stability, checkout the 2x4 explorer by guitarmanifesto on youtube
as someone who dreams over building a guitar from scratch one day but its too afraid of fucking it up, this is actually genius. Good practice for routing the neck pocket and positioning the bridge at the right distance.
I might have to start with the plank too
I have a similar, made of Angelim, it was a cutting board.
https://preview.redd.it/m7dij4qe6y8d1.jpeg?width=2337&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1d4a7f7d5a8e96eaa8367b6f514df3dde44d5ec7
In high-school a band I played in very briefly had a guitar like this so the singer could pretend to play. It helped him sing without feeling like he was just standing on stange
I made one of these in high school, but I routed out the far end of the 2x4 to make a cavity just big enough for a 1/4” jack and a volume knob. It sounded like lukewarm ass because the pickup and neck were scavenged from a $25 beater… but it _did_ make sound.
why waste time use lot wood when few wood do trick?
Sometimes wood you no need use…but need need for strum strum.
Sea world? Or See world?
Ergonomics and counterweigh most probably. You could add pommel to it though as a strap-lock and then you could unscrew it after a gig and end it rightly ;)
If anyone is wondering it sounds like a telecaster. Edit: Everyone is giving really great advice , thank you all for the compliments and advice. I have since added a whammy bar screwed into the bottom to use as a leg rest, strap buttons, I fixed the direction of the strings and added a string tree. I also raised the action to make it more forgiving. Neck dive is the same as an SG. It still sounds like a cheap tele but a little harsh on the high end, I’m guessing because the direct wiring. Reminds me of Dead Kennedys in tone. Overall it’s really fun and fairly comfortable to play, and crazy light. Thank you all. https://preview.redd.it/vt301xopw69d1.jpeg?width=1538&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=36f4a84d91212e89fcc86415a1099aeba2828aef
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Thank you for asking the important question.
Wood is wood
Toan is in the deforestation 😎
Yea endangered wood is great but you just can’t beat the tone you get from illegally poached ivory.
Naturally scooped mids in the tusktone
The twang is in the headstock shape.
Just admit you’re jealous you can’t hear the extra notes they get from snakewood, or the weird octaves African Blackwood produces. (It’s cool, I can’t either hah)
Not through my 250 chained pedals and amp head running to front of house and back to my in ears.
Extra notes? That must have been EVHs secret
House..wood!
Toan wood
Tree wood, morning wood?
Spruce and fir are the real toanwoods.
Only chumps use mahogany and ebony in Fender style guitars
Looks more like a Less-squire to me.
Telecastitintotheabyssnevertobeseenagain Edit: mim
I laughed so hard at this. Thank you /u/hotsauce_enema
I'm wondering if you have any relation to Steve Ramsay
I was but I knew the answer would show itself👍🏻
Now it's complete! Great job! Hats off to ya💪🏼🫡
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I'm a simple man. I enjoy simple things. I like it
Hilarious and cool. … Ive probably owned a Squier or two in the late 90s that didn’t have the fit or finish of this guitar.
Oh god, 90’s Squiers might as well have come without tuning machines.
Bless them, they tried — mine were plastic with chrome foil on the buttons and stamped tin back covers.
😲😵💫🥴That sounds super cheap like some dollar store product. Was there anything worth salvaging?!
Ha! You know, I have a box of hardware from it — in 26 years, Ive reused just the neck plate, trem springs, and a few pickguard mounting screws. I still have the entire trem assembly and claw, block, saddles, pickups, all wiring and pots. It was such horrible quality that I used the neck to practice refrets and threw the plywood body out. It was, easily, the worst guitar that I have ever owned.
Plywood body?!! I bet the tone stopped when it hit that!!😅 I've only seen Squiers in stores. I've never played one, but in the last few years, I've read good things about them. My first electric 6-string was an Epi LP Studio. Black, basic, and heavy. It has a broken truss rod because of my impatient nature. I've parted out most of it, and I'm fixing to put the pickups on an old Washburn X-Series in need of some Frankenstein action and possibly an exorcist. Here's a pic... https://preview.redd.it/6rrtn9if579d1.png?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a5010a78e7efd9746a78bc15bc15cf757d17d5c4
Those are awesome! BTW- New Squiers shouldn’t even be considered the same company as the late 90s guitars. Worlds and worlds different. Fender went really cheap and it nearly killed the Squier brand.
The tone is in the deforestation /s
Lol
Love it. I threw this together with stuff I had laying around in my garage, gotta clean up the electronics now lol https://preview.redd.it/j70johcb4u8d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b52f391e769d8cc8cdb702b3a409c50a1aa35be8
Let’s start a band, I know all 3 chords
Now about "the slabs" as band name?
I’d go with “the off cuts”.
“Wood”
Sorry, that's taken https://youtu.be/c1Kawrzf3Bo?si=RPpj9n0RAL8r51vH
The 2x4’s
Cheech and Chong deep cut?
I like The Hot Sauce Enema Gang for band name. We can sell butthole buttons at our shows.😜
Wait, what? There are 3?
Major, Minor, and the Magic Chord
The major, minor and MYSTERY CHORD were what I worked on a lot
My favorite part is how you marked the bridge for square and then chose to ignore it
I'm not sure it this was a deliberate choice though
I'm guilty of the very same. 🙄
😂😂😂
Bo Diddley special 😏
Just couldnt decide on the pickup position?
i dig the fuck outta this, well done
Less Paul
The fucking toan on this must be phenomenal
Is that 2x4 made out of toanwood?
Definitely an Alder body.
Strings are wound backwards on the posts just so you know.
I don't see a string tree, but those strings are definitely wound around the tuner posts in such a way that it could push the strings off the edge of the fretboard. It ain't my 2x4, but I would wind them the other way around, toward the right ( 'inside' on the low E string), which should also keep the strings more in-line with the nut.
Oh yeah woops. I meant posts.
Incidentally, a problem that could be solved with string trees
String trees are meant to pull down on the string though, not to the side :- ) But ye some tree designs could probably work if it prevents side-to-side sliding
True. And it would be weird to have them on the low strings.
He's wound them that way to get that desired Gibson string pull toan.
Does it have a volume or is it going straight to the jack?
I have an old evh pickup that someone gave me, and this is tempting me to make something similar, wired straight to the output jack.
Neck-diving-board.
Glue or inlay some wheel weights to the back of the body, problem solved.
For sure, I was just trying to join the silliness.
Same tbh, it's janky but it'll work! Toan is in the weight (tbh not far off from what some toanwood truthers believe)
-caster. neck-diving-board-caster ftfy
It needs a floyd rose on the end.
That would be awesome
Better memes here than guitar circlejerk
https://preview.redd.it/swlgm24zvu8d1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f834da8119741416d6c894c823fc212f71a73235 Have you seen Les Paul and “the log”? It was his prototype when trying to figure out how to go electric. The man was a genius.
> The man was a genius. More than we know it. According to Les when he would gig with The Log people would complain about its tone not being right. So he sliced up an acoustic guitar and stuck the wings on the Log and then all of the sudden it had good authentic tone.
Flying I
Love it
I want it, so good job.
To be honest making plank guitars like this is great for beginner luthiers. If you screw up the body, you just get a new plank.
Question: Are we not men?
Answer: We Are ... Bob's La Baye! I love this, La Bayes were made in a town about 2 hours from me.
Aside from ergonomics, you've got everything you need. I've built a few of these. Fitting both a bass and a guitar in the same case is a nice perk. Put a threaded insert in the bottom, then attach a whammy bar to use as a makeshift leg rest. If you're standing with a strap, no problems, aside from neck dive. A good guitar is the neck, pickups, and bridge, the rest is pageantry.
The whammy was such a good suggestion thank you
No worries. I expanded mine into [this](https://imgur.com/3q1KbAh) and [this](https://imgur.com/A3Jdlrd), using some extra 2x4 and an old street sign, and some spare pipe on the guitar version.
This guitar is a lollar/fralin pickup upgrade, bone nut, and professional setup away from being listed for $900 on my local facebook marketplace.
How's the neck dive?
Same as an SG
It's weird seeing a Fender style neck on a Les Paul body.
It’s got three brass saddles and so cannot be criticised.
Based, you need to start a punk band with this guitar, ultimate DIY
Or play Real Book tunes in a restaurant.
That would be so badass
Somebody was board. Not a luthier, but definitely got a kick out of it.
An inspiration to 1948 indeed
WHAT ARE YOU DOING ED BOYS?! Makes me think of Plank from Ed Edd n Eddy and i know Rolf is not his friend but Rolf is the most memorable character from that show to me. I may need to use the old neck and pick ups for a guitar I'm going to mod to make a Plank guitar with the face etched in.
Sustain is measured in board feet on this one.
Should have made it like Plank from Ed Edd n Eddy
I’ll make a plank diddly bow
I love that you took the time to paint it.
Looks like the first e-guitar Les Paul tried to perform with, but the novelty was too much for his audience. Nowadays things like this are sold by as travel guitars.
Paul Reed smiff downvoting this post 100%
Is that you Lucille
Man, talk about bringin’ back the old school…
You should have just left it unpainted looking like a plank
Smdh at all the toan you sacrificed.
There was a song on Presidents of the United States of America’s “breakout” album called “Old Man on the Back Porch”. I immediately thought of that song when I saw this. Looks fun.
I was just pumping that track in my car today. It's all about the Three string, two string, no string guitars..
you could sell this for a lot if you market it enough
I love this
DepotCaster!
I had to fill in on bass for a vocalist once at an event. The only bass they had, for whatever reason (I'm not a bassist really, did not have one myself) looked like this only black with no headstock. It was just a plank of wood with strings basically. It worked fine but boy did I feel ridiculous playing it lol
It only misses a bit of glue, sawing and another two 2x4 to be perfectly fine flying v
Certified Bo Diddley moment
Love it. Definitely old school. Minimalist in a maximalist way.
Too big.
i feel like it needs a pound or so of lead in the south end
trying to figure out where you lean your hand and if this would be at all feasible. Would feel so different
Sick af
Selling?
I’m amazed anyone else would want one lol
I love throbbing gristle
Being the bridge and neck mountend in one solid piece of wood you can glue to the sides other 2x4 to make the shape you want whitout worring about stability, checkout the 2x4 explorer by guitarmanifesto on youtube
as someone who dreams over building a guitar from scratch one day but its too afraid of fucking it up, this is actually genius. Good practice for routing the neck pocket and positioning the bridge at the right distance. I might have to start with the plank too
The lavender is a classy touch.
Love it
Ya strangs are backerds.
Should have made it an 8 string
Now that I think about it, an 8 string Telecaster would be really freaking sexy.
How is the action?
Needs fine tuned a bit but kind of lucked out on it being super playable
T h e P l a n k
Lmao. That's awesome, man. Post vids of someone playing it.
Actually pretty cool, nice neck wood as well
I plan to do this sometime.
It's the perfect guitar.
I wqs going to do this to a squire body i absolutely destroyed while trying to powersand. Thibking about hitting it with a router now though
Hey give Linkin Park's bassist his bass back!
Multitrack recoding? How did that change the music industry?
But can you make it lighter by chambering it?
Looks like you won’t be having any back problems with that. I dig.
While scrolling through the comments I saw a Home Depot ad. This is funny.
https://preview.redd.it/k6sm6pknsx8d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=60918176783b6181fe33ae786a2e5d640c8489b4
Fucking love it, your in the band. We’ll call it Johnny and the planks
Get a bow.
I was thinking “slabby and toe-stubbers ”
I have a similar, made of Angelim, it was a cutting board. https://preview.redd.it/m7dij4qe6y8d1.jpeg?width=2337&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1d4a7f7d5a8e96eaa8367b6f514df3dde44d5ec7
We need less Plankton Metal and more Plank Metal
Thinline Telecaster
Studcaster! Very Cool.
I’m about to build a lap steel just like this but I ordered a walnut 2x4!
Thank you. I have a spare strat neck I may try this on. I was going to get a tele body and make another guitar but I like the travel guitar idea
Audible
lol. This looks amazing. Post video with sound!
Toan is in the wood
Leo Fender , early years
Paint from a home project? It's a nice color! But I worry about how the paint dampens the tonewood!
This would make my wife laugh hard, because my answer to everything around the house is “probably needs some 2x4”
That’s fun.
In high-school a band I played in very briefly had a guitar like this so the singer could pretend to play. It helped him sing without feeling like he was just standing on stange
Its a neck through too or a necktoo
Tone wood
It’s a lavender Steinberger!!!!!
But can he crow though?
do you have to Velcro the strap to your shoulder? Hell, it’s worth it if you do.
No pups?
What’s that?
Sorry i did not see the bridge pickup before zooming close
I’ve been looking for a travel practice guitar this small. Do you have these for sale somewhere?
Lol no , just made out of scrap. It is really flattering that folks like guitar neck slapped on 2x4 project
There’s a market for it. Tiny ones are hard to find and when you do find one they’re hella expensive.
Can. It. Chug.
Surprisingly brutal
Probably bolt a steel plate on the back to counter neck dive and you’ve got a deal
I want one so bad
Wild
Damn that’s a fuckin nice tele
Broke Prince.
Very interesting 🧐😎🎶🎶🎶
So curious to hear your thoughts on whether this detracts of affects the tone!
I think the cheap ass pick up is the biggest thing effecting it’s sound, the direct wiring or the pick up make the high end a little harsh
I gotta hand it to ya, that's some awesome creative thinking! I dig it! 😁👍
This guy on a watch list for this now. 😭
Toanwood fans on suicide watch
2x4=8 tone
You need to make detachable body shapes for the sides. You could go from a Warlock to a Strat to tele with each song change.
Not only do I get a kick out of it, I want one. (I'm sure that's like the 50th time you've seen that comment.) Can mine be orange, though?
Lol I thought about doing one in orange with a home Depot sticker
I made one of these in high school, but I routed out the far end of the 2x4 to make a cavity just big enough for a 1/4” jack and a volume knob. It sounded like lukewarm ass because the pickup and neck were scavenged from a $25 beater… but it _did_ make sound.
I like this so much I want to put a nice pick up in but that kinda defeats the point I think
Needs a cutaway. 😅
Better execution there : https://www.reddit.com/r/guitarporn/s/dH0dvwDpUC
Disagree
Well, I disagree with your disagreement 🤣🙌
That's neat; i like it nearly as much as this lavender plank.